OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Policy Studies is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	58
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism	23
Mending Democracy: A response to our readers	23
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development	21
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights	19
Deliberative democracy, public policy, and local government	18
Grappling with post-truth politics - facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times	17
Institutional embeddedness: activist networks in defense of COVID-19 victims in Brazil	16
Comparisons, Categories, and Labels: Investigating the North–South Dichotomy in Europe	15
The policy sciences of Harold Lasswell: contextual orientation and the critical dimension	15
A blueprint for what? From a critical policy discursive analysis of UN’s sustainable development goals to a constructive rearticulation for their application	15
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies	14
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish COVID-19 restriction policy	14
Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population , by Susanne Schu	11
Understanding institutional dynamics in participatory governance: how rules, practices and narratives combine to produce stability or diverge to create conditions for change	11
Variegated Economies	10
Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network	10
Articulating AI futures for Brazil: on different regimes of technological solutionism	10
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria	9
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance	9
The pandemic within: policy making for a better world	9
Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell!	9
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature	8
Exposing Ourselves to Ourselves: Observations on the Contextual Principle	8
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards	7

With or without X : can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires?	7
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*	7
Racialized knowledges: understanding the construction of the Muslim ‘terrorist’ in the policy process	7
Cancritical policy studiesoutsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy	6
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax	6
Negotiating salt worlds: causation and material participation	6
Creating spaces of engagement: policy justice & the practical craft of deliberative democracy	6
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment	5
Flows of power: an analytical framework for the study of collaboration	5
Psychosocial well-being, policies, and the emotional boundaries of home	5
Policy learning in crisis governance: translating narratives and reframing actions for co-evolving futures	4
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom	4
Political contestation in policy implementation: A narrative inquiry into a needle exchange program	4
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration	4
Social security conditionality as a corrective to ‘flawed consumption’: the use of the cashless debit card to reframe Australian norms of social protection	4
Collaboration and public policy: agency in the pursuit of public purpose	4
E Pluribus Unum: power, problem definition and ownership between the United States and Indigenous populations	4
Truth and post-truth in public policy: interpreting the arguments	4
Performing like a state? State-ness, sovereignty and the ‘illegal’ immigrant	3
The intellectual justification of sovereign power: representations of the Kurds in Turkish scholarship	3
Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies	3
Discourse, framing and narrative: three ways of doing critical, interpretive policy analysis	3
Assembling good citizenship under Korean COVID-19 surveillance	3
’Governing climate change in Southeast Asia: critical perspectives’	3
Is critical policy inquiry a legacy of Harold Lasswell?	3
Shadowboxing in silence: balancing with European Semester guidelines in national parliamentary debates on economic policies	3
Beyond the powers of seduction: tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance	3
Automating activation in Australia: a critical policy discourse analysis of the new employment services model	3
The logic of responsibilisation: a critical discourse analysis of the juvenile offenders law in Chile	3
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies	3
Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities	3
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism	3
Livestock and climate change frames and interaction strategies in East Africa: exploring tensions between adaptation and mitigation options	3
Responsibility and innovation for low waste and circular economy transitions: what roles for households?	3